Open Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education

dc.creator	Tom Caswell
dc.creator	Shelley Henson
dc.creator	Marion Jensen
dc.creator	David Wiley
dc.date	2008-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:15:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:15:58Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c8e893f8e5dc41f1baf7cb227184707b
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18068
dc.description	The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reproduction costs are almost non-existent. This shift has significant implications, and allows distance educators to play an important role in the fulfillment of the promise of the right to universal education. At little or no cost, universities can make their content available to millions. This content has the potential to substantially improve the quality of life of learners around the world. New distance education technologies, such as OpenCourseWares, act as enablers to achieving the universal right to education. These technologies, and the associated changes in the cost of providing access to education, change distance education's role from one of classroom alternative to one of social transformer.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/469/1001
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2008)
dc.subject	OpenCourseWare
dc.subject	distance education
dc.subject	access
dc.subject	new technologies
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Open Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education
dc.type	article